Time-diary data from four countries suggest that differences in market time between the unemployed and employed represent additional leisure and personal maintenance rather than increased household production. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the reduction in market work in areas...

SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2005-048 Zeitarbeit in Deutschland: Trends und Perspektiven Michael C. Burda* Michael Kvasnicka* * Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie II, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany This research was...

Payroll taxes represent a major distortionary in uence of governments on labor markets. This paper examines the role of payroll taxation and the social safety net for cyclical fluctuations in a nonmonetary economy with labor market frictions and unemployment insurance, when the latter is only...